What do these Lyrics mean to you?

Question

"Holiday"

Say, hey!

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)
The shame
The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (Hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protester has crossed the line (Hey!)
To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men (Hey!)
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

"The representative from California has the floor"

Sieg Heil to the president Gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on holiday

Answer 1

What do the lyrics mean to me?

Well, compared to Pink's disasterous, embarrassingly childish rant "Mr. President", this is practically poetry. It's also better than Neil Youngs adolescent level protest songs, but still nowhere near the High Priestess of Punk Rock, Patti Smith who wrote real poetry, like "People Have The Power".

(partial lyrics):
Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
in the form of / shining valleys
where the pure air / recognized
and my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry
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One again, we have a typical war protest song. Why can't someone ever look at the flip side of the picture? Let's take Iraq. We liberated that country, and once Saddam's armies surrendered or were defeated, not one more person had to die. Every death in battle since then has been because Islama fascists refuse to allow the democratically-elected government of Iraq function in peace. Why doesn't someone write a song about that?

That's the irony of culture. Everything negative is viewed as sophisticated and cool.

Answer 2

Please do not make a question this long ever again. Green Day is crap. I like protest songs, but this is cheap and meaningless.